List of Famous people who died in 2020

Oswald Oberhuber was an Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.

Maria Fernanda Mamede de Pádua Lapa was a Portuguese actress.

Donato Sabia was an Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

James Floyd Scott was an American physicist and research director at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is considered one of the pioneers of ferroelectric memory devices. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2008.

Mark Yakovlevich Azbel was a Soviet and Israeli physicist. He was a member of the American Physical Society.

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Mamadou Tandja was a Nigerien politician who was President of Niger from 1999 to 2010. He was President of the National Movement of the Development Society (MNSD) from 1991 to 1999 and unsuccessfully ran as the MNSD's presidential candidate in 1993 and 1996 before being elected to his first term in 1999. While serving as President of Niger, he was also Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States from 2005 to 2007.

Éva Székely was a Hungarian swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, set six world records, and won 44 national titles. She held the first world record in the 400 m individual medley in 1953.

Magella Gros-Louis, known as Max Gros-Louis or Oné Onti, was a Canadian politician and businessman in Quebec. For many years, he was Grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat First Nation. He founded and directed various important organizations, which are dedicated to the culture and rights of the First Nations People in Canada.

Charles George Reinier Corver was a Dutch football referee.

Thérèse Allah, better known as Allah Thérèse, was a traditional singer from the village of Gbofia in the sub-prefecture of Toumodi. A pioneer of traditional Ivorian music, Allah Thérèse was made a Knight of the Ivorian Order of Merit in 2014. She was known for her signature hairstyle, "Akôrou Koffié". In her native language of Baoule, Allah translated to iroko.